public boolean canGenerateReport()

in src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/pmd/AbstractPmdReport.java [456:479]

• 20 lines of code
• 8 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public boolean canGenerateReport() {
        if (aggregate && !project.isExecutionRoot()) {
            return false;
        }

        if (!isAggregator() && "pom".equalsIgnoreCase(project.getPackaging())) {
            return false;
        }

        // if format is XML, we need to output it even if the file list is empty
        // so the "check" goals can check for failures
        if (isXml()) {
            return true;
        }
        try {
            filesToProcess = getFilesToProcess();
            if (filesToProcess.isEmpty()) {
                return false;
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            getLog().error(e);
        }
        return true;
    }